This is not unique to Moblin. There were a couple Poulsbo binary driver releases for this chipset several years ago, but they were not maintained by the vendor. So distributions that use modern kernel versions probably are not able to support this graphics HW.
regards Joel -----Original Message----- From: dev-boun...@moblin.org [mailto:dev-boun...@moblin.org] On Behalf Of Jaap Struyk Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 9:28 AM To: dev@moblin.org Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] grub options Op 03-05-10 17:19, Arjan van de Ven schreef: >>> Sorry, I don't know the answer to your specific question. I just wanted >>> to make sure you're familiar with the graphics situation: Moblin does >>> not support the Poulsbo chipset that I think BenQ uses. >> >> That is a bummer, strangely enough the graphical installation with >> anaconda went fine so xorg does work, doesn't the moblin ui uses xorg? >> > > the installer gets by on VESA. > the actual UI needs real 3D support in practice. Thanks for pointing that out guys, Moblin seemed the best option for the tiny device but I never heard about the GMA500 stuff until you answered, will try Mandrive on it and it seems they have the Moblin ui available and in the one version Poulsbo support. _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List dev@moblin.org To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List dev@moblin.org To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
